Town Hall News

By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine shut the eastern town of Avdiivka to non-military personnel on Monday, describing it as a post-apocalyptic wasteland, as Kyiv tried to break the back of Russia’s flagging winter offensive before a counter-assault of its own. A Ukrainian general said Kyiv was planning its next move after Moscow appeared to shift focus from the small city of Bakhmut, which Russia has failed to capture […]

By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared inclined to uphold a federal law that made it a crime to encourage illegal immigration, signaling agreement with President Joe Biden’s administration that the measure does not violate constitutional free speech protections. The justices heard arguments in the administration’s appeal of a lower court’s decision in a case from California to strike down the […]

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – Arab broadcasters carried rolling coverage of Israeli protests, strikes and political chaos on Monday, drawing the rapt attention of viewers to the internal fight over government plans to overhaul the judiciary. The crisis featured far and wide, from the pan-Arab channel Al Jazeera, whose ticker was dominated by a stream of news from Israel, to al-Manar, run by the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, which […]

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – Arab broadcasters carried rolling coverage of Israeli protests, strikes and political chaos on Monday, drawing the rapt attention of viewers to the internal fight over government plans to overhaul the judiciary. The crisis featured far and wide, from the pan-Arab channel Al Jazeera, whose ticker was dominated by a stream of news from Israel, to al-Manar, run by the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, which […]

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday delayed a decision on bitterly contested plans for a judicial overhaul amid fears that Israel’s worst national crisis in years could fracture his coalition or escalate into violence. It was unclear how far the bill’s delay to next month’s new parliamentary session, after mass protests and growing labour strikes, will satisfy either side or cool a crisis the army […]

By Andrew Hay (Reuters) -A New Mexico judge on Monday told the district attorney overseeing the “Rust” movie-set shooting case that she could not appoint a new special prosecutor and remain on the case herself, marking another potential setback for the prosecution. The comments by district court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer came after the armorer charged in the 2021 shooting filed a motion to block appointment of a new special […]

(Reuters) -A female shooter killed three children and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday before police shot her dead. The assailant appeared to be a teenage girl, police said. Police began receiving calls at 10:13 a.m. of a shooter at The Covenant School, which teaches children up to 6th grade. Officers could hear gunfire coming from the school’s second floor, Don Aaron, a spokesperson […]

(Reuters) -Three pharmacy benefit management (PBM) companies are being sued in Ohio over allegations of drug price fixing, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The lawsuit filed in an Ohio state court alleged that PBM units of Cigna Corp and Humana Inc, along with Prime Therapeutics LLC, shared pricing and other information gathered by a related Swiss company to gain leverage during negotiations with drugmakers for rebates, the report […]

(Reuters) -At least three children and three adults were killed in a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday before police shot dead the shooter, who appeared to be a teenage girl. Police began receiving calls of a shooter at The Covenant School at 10:13 a.m.. Officers could hear gunfire coming from the school’s second floor, Don Aaron, a spokesperson for Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, told […]